Studio 88 is pleased to introduce Spanish designer Irene García who is joining us at Reviving Nature: Pollution Alert Artist Residency in February 2024. Learn more about her work here!
Irene García works in social and participatory projects and is particularly interested in geometry and colour. Since childhood, she has had the need to modify the environment around her, whether it was a space, an object or a garment. She specializes in ephemeral architecture and is looking for projects or challenges that allow her to find a language that connects her artistic and abstract intuition with a technical methodology.
For this residency, she will investigate plastic waste and explore the relationship people have with plastic. She writes:
“I have internalized plastic as a habitual resource, an identity of contemporary culture, and as such it awakens a certain attraction in me. On the other hand, we know that its production and waste have a negative impact on the health of our planet. Being aware of how present this material is in our lives and knowing what we are doing wrong with it, produces a great duality in me. What I seek with this artistic residency is to find a balance in the relationship we have with plastic. To take advantage of its qualities of plasticity, resistance and color as an aesthetic resource that evidences the excess of waste that passes through our hands on a daily basis.”
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